Doctoral Research Dataset
Description
Details about our qualitative research performed in my doctoral research. The study conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with project managers, software engineers, designers, and testers to perform deep interpretive analyses aiming to understand their experiences and challenges in software development contracting stage at CESAR, a leading Brazilian Institute of Science and Technology focused on software-driven innovation projects. The dataset includes research questions, guide interview versions, prompts submitted to some AI-assisted tool (chatGPT, Manus, Gemini) in order to make some qualitative analysis activities like refining interview guide, transcription of audio interview, coding identification over transcription, text translation and revision, etc. Due to the sensitive nature of the questions asked in this study, semi-structured interviews respondents were assured raw data would remain confidential and would not be shared.